{"id":165941,"date":"2010-02-05T23:24:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T23:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&#038;p=165941"},"modified":"2018-12-18T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:04:46","slug":"display-options-for-hardware-acceleration-and-remote-desktop","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-desktop\/administration\/display-options-for-hardware-acceleration-and-remote-desktop","title":{"rendered":"Display options for Hardware Acceleration and Remote 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hardware instead of your computer\u2019s CPU, we have improved the smoothness and responsiveness of panning and zooming of supported layers in ArcMap.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Enabling hardware acceleration<br \/>\n<\/strong>Because some user\u2019s machines may not be able to support hardware acceleration with acceptable performance, the option is off by default.\u00a0 To try hardware acceleration in ArcMap, go to the Customize menu and choose ArcMap Options.\u00a0 Go to the Data View tab.\u00a0 Here you\u2019ll find a checkbox for \u201cEnable Hardware Acceleration for supported layers\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/dev_11323.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/dev_11323.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This checkbox will be grayed out if hardware acceleration can\u2019t be enabled for this ArcMap session.\u00a0 This can occur if one of the following is 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you quickly add an ArcGIS Online Basemap Layer<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Disabling continuous display for remote desktop sessions<br \/>\n<\/strong>Over lower-bandwidth remote desktop connections, the continuous drawing of Basemap Layers or raster layers accelerated with the Image Analysis toolbar can result in poor interactivity.\u00a0 By default, continuous drawing is disabled when ArcMap is accessed over a remote desktop connection.\u00a0 If you have a high-bandwidth connection to the remote machine, you can enable continuous drawing so that you still get the fast refresh capabilities of your Basemap Layers or accelerated raster layers.<\/p>\n<p>On the ArcMap Options menu (Customize-&gt;ArcMap Options, Data View tab) you will find the option to Enable continuous updates during navigation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/downloads2.esri.com\/blogs\/images\/dev_11326.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" 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